Tensões entre as concepções e as políticas públicas de Educação Profissional em Saúde de nível médio no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This thesis cares about the issues relating to the historic political/organizational tensions between health and education fields, related to Health Professional Education; it searches to answer the scope to which educational policies respond to training of the technical health workers needs in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, as well as how the state autonomy affects on health and education policies in the area of professional education in health since the decentralization process occurs differently in those fields. The overall purpose of the study is to understand the historically constructed tensions of conceptual, political and legal nature of the relationship between the need for technical health training and education policies, identifying implications for the regulation of Health Professional Education in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. This research is supported in the historic materialism as theory and method and starts from Marxist conceptions of the work as social relations in different phases of formal education as part of the totality of social processes. The study analyzes the state as a complex of relationships that materializes the capitalist mode of production in society. These concepts could support the review of literature on the health work organization and the public polices for mid-level health workers training. The methodological path followed departed from the analysis of legal documents and from listening the Professional Health Education polices formulators who are members of the Health and Education Council. The results of the research evidence that the policies of vocation, where the state lines up to defend the interests of the private sector, even in the provision of services and in health workers training. The hypothesis that the contradictions of the fields of health and education are reflected in public policies, making the transformation of health care models and workers training in the technical level was confirmed. The overcoming of these difficulties can be reached with the integration of the public polices proposals from both fields, health and education, with the support of the in theoretical reflection on the integration between work and school, for the technical health workers training.